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Quechua woman with llamas in the Department of Cuzco Girl, wearing indigenous clothing, with llama near Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Quechua people cultivate and eat a variety of foods. They domesticated potatoes and cultivated thousands of potato varieties, which are used for food and medicine. Climate change is threatening their potato and other ...
24 December 1950 (age 73) San Francisco de Pujas, Ayacucho, Peru. Awards. Order of Merit for Women (2010), Visionary Award (2011) Tarcila Rivera Zea (born 24 December 1950) [1] is a Quechua activist, member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since her election on 5 April 2016 [2][3] and awarded with the Visionary Award ...
The Indigenous peoples of Peru or Native Peruvians (Spanish: Peruanos Nativos) comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. In 2017, 5,500,000 Peruvians identified themselves as indigenous peoples and ...
Mama Quilla (Quechua mama killa lit. "Mother Moon", [1] Hispanicized spelling Mama Quilla), in Inca mythology and religion, was the third power and goddess of the moon.She was the older sister and wife of Inti, daughter of Viracocha and mother of Manco Cápac and Mama Uqllu (Mama Ocllo), mythical founders of the Inca empire and culture.
Cuxirimay Ocllo (Classical Quechua: Kuši Rimay Uqllu) (born before 1532–d. after 1576), also known as Doña Angelina Yupanqui, was a princess and consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her cousin, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r. 1532–1533).
Aymara is a third official language in Peru after Spanish and Quechua. It is spoken by 1.6% of the Peruvian population. [42] Aymara has no distant language relative but there are some nearby similar languages. Quechua has some overlap with Aymara brought by contact. There are two closely related languages called Jaqaru and Kawki.
Occupation. Singer-Songwriter. Known for. Quechua-language trap songs, indigenous activism, song covers translated to Quechua. Renata Flores Rivera is a Peruvian singer, made famous in South America by a viral Quechua cover of Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel", released in 2015. [2][3][4][5]
Dayuma (also Dayumae) (born ca. 1930, - March 1, 2014) was a member of the Huaorani tribe and a citizen of Ecuador.She is a central figure in the Operation Auca saga, in that she was the first Huao to convert to Christianity, as well as the missionaries' key to unlocking the Huaorani language, a language that had not been previously studied.